I must be allowed to claim the modest distinction of
knoWing something about Mr. Donal Buckley, the newly appointed Governor-General of the Irish Free State. About three years ago, driVing down from Dublin to Sligo (as it happened, 'With, the son of Bryan Cooper, who, had he lived and the Cosgrave administra- tion remained in power, might have been Governor-. General himself), I had a breakdown in the main street of Maynooth. The resources of the only garage proving. inadequate, reinforcements were enlisted from Dublin. Meanwhile the owner 'of the least ramshackle shop in the village supplied us with food, and most obligingly placed the Idusehold amenities of hiS eStablishinent at our disposal. I may add that,' but for the biographical appendices conveniently :provided, it is improbable that I should have recognized him in the recent photographs of the new Governor-General: . ' • ajAlius.
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